My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1614-1616

Chapter 1614

“Is everything okay, Master?” Alysia asked.

“I hope everyone is enjoying the meal.”

“Eh? It’s top-notch!”

“My lord cooks the best.”

“I see.”

Everyone had been eating quietly. I was getting a bit spoiled by Eliana’s overreactions. Not everyone could be so pleased with roasted boar. I just didn’t know if anyone liked it because they weren’t convulsing on the floor with foam coming out of their mouth. That didn’t seem healthy either. Maybe I needed to take Eliana to a doctor in my world after all.

I had ended up cooking the boar meat drop and everyone enjoyed it. Dropped items were an odd thing in dungeons. They sometimes could give you access to rare items that you couldn’t find anywhere else. Since dungeons used lore, it was theoretically possible to bring things back that no longer existed. Exotic plants, strange animals, and more could be seemingly resurrected through the power of a dungeon. Of course, most animals would be tainted by the miasma of the dungeon.

Items didn’t appear to be tainted in the same way. I didn’t know why they were able to avoid this fate, other than that they existed to entice people to enter the dungeon and potentially become its next victim. Whether the dungeon hungered for the lore they could potentially steal off anyone who died, or the mana that they could convert into miasma to fuel their continued growth, I had no clue. It was probably a good thing that items were tainted with miasma, or food like the meat we just ate would slowly turn us into miasmic creatures.

That didn’t stop Anne from casting some kind of purification spell over the meat before I cooked it. I had similar spells, and they had nothing to do with miasma. I usually only used such spells to keep food lasting longer without spoiling. The paladins who looked admiringly at Anne didn’t know this though. It seemed like the church had adopted a lot of customs that didn’t do anything, but were ultimately for show.

The only one who seemed to refrain from eating was Calypso. When I offered her something, she refused and then made an offhanded comment about how she had to watch her figure. While everyone else ate, she remained sitting in the corner, her chains still on and being held by a nearby paladin. I allowed the paladins to be in control of the chains, but I still kept a close watch on her. If one of them decided to suddenly make a move on her, I wanted to be ready.

That’s why I noticed when her eyes suddenly widened. It was something no one else noticed, but there was something that had suddenly caught her. I had already eaten, so I didn’t hesitate to walk over and crouch next to her.

“What is it?” I demanded.

Calypso looked at me reluctantly for a second and then sighed. “We need to hurry.”

“What? We’re already past the third dungeon. We’ve made it halfway, and we’ve only been traveling half the day. Why do we need to hurry?”

“It’s the Fae.” She responded. “They’ve just defeated the SS-ranked boss.”

Chapter 1615

“How can you be certain of that?” I asked.

“I know what I know.” She snapped back before turning her head away. “I just happen to know that the dungeon boss was just defeated. You should be able to see SS island from here. It won’t be covered by the fog any longer.”

I had the Paladins watch her as I went up through the Saferoom and then out onto the island. I jumped up into the sky to get a better look. I was on the A island now. S island had been the one I went to the previous night, and SS should be just beyond that. As I looked into the distance, I could see that Calypso was indeed right. The SS island was no longer surrounded by fog. If I squinted hard, I was pretty sure that that fog was starting to form around the SSS island too.

With a curse, I went back into the Saferoom. Chance, Cici, and Anne had all made their way there, sitting down and ready for storytime.

“We don’t have time for this. They’re going to be fighting the final boss soon.”

“So soon?” one of the Titan Fall girls cried out. “ I thought Calypso said that it would take them a long time…”

“I think the problem with that sentence was Calypso said…” One of the other girls whispered in her ear.

“I realized it as soon as I said it.”

Calypso had been dragged along with the paladin, and she shot them a glare, but the taller women ignored it. The little girls looked disappointed, but they got up and started heading back to the Champion’s Gauntlet. The paladins gave me dirty looks for making the girls sad. I ignored them.

“Knowledge is power, Deek,” Calypso spoke up as the group filed out. “You may want regret shunning it.”

I didn’t know what she meant for a second, but when I glanced in her direction and looked at the mural, I saw a piece of the story I didn’t expect to see.

“What?” I had to look twice to make sure I caught it right. “That… can’t be.”

It showed the woman with golden hair. She was the one who was the champion of the Fae. In the last image, she had been using some kind of power against the monsters of darkness. However, this mural showed her in clothing that didn’t look all that different from the clothing of earth. There were tall buildings and skyscrapers. In the next image, she was overtaken by a bright light. When she woke up, she was in front of a king, the king of the fae.

They would train her, make her stronger, and then she’d eventually rise to fight off the demon king. It came off as the classic story from an isekai, but it was being told in this dungeon, and in connection to the champion who fought against the humans. It was a human king that she battled, and as for the mysterious champion who saved the fae?

“The champion… is a hero from another world!”

Chapter 1616

Technically, all of humanity was from another world. Few races on this world actually started on this world. Most of them burrowed their way through dungeons to get here. Dungeons, when they became deep enough, could act as pathways between worlds.  Either that or they were just copies of the lore from a world that had been destroyed, like a malignant tumor throwing off flecks of cancer that scattered across the various worlds. I had never entered a dungeon deep enough to find out which was the truth.

However, this was the first time I had ever heard of someone being summoned to another world. At least, this was the first time someone other than myself had been summoned. What was even stranger was that this woman wasn’t working for humans. Maybe that was a bit prejudiced of me as a human, but I had expected if I ever found someone from another world, that it would be the humans they were fighting for. In their desperation, the Fae had managed to summon a champion from another world.

This new information was enough to send my mind whirling through the possibilities. I happened to know a key fact about the Fae. That fact was that the Fae royals had yellow hair, just like this woman. I had long theorized that this champion was in some way connected to the Fae royalty. I figured that the champion was some princess hero or relative of the royal family. It wasn’t hard to guess that someone would need to have a lot of resources if they wanted to become strong enough to be called a champion.

However, the King in this mural did not have yellow hair. Perhaps, the yellow-haired lineage that continued in the Fairy Plains was the descendants of this hero. The true royal family must have been destroyed, and the survivors reformed around this champion. This meant that she wasn’t just the hero, but she was also the matriarch of the entire Fae royal structure.

I shook my head. I was getting distracted. When I looked back to where Calypso had been standing, she had already left, being dragged by the Paladin.

The group filed out of the boss room and we gained the third part of the blessing. Without wasting any more time, we started heading for the next fight. This was the S-ranked monster. We were starting to get into the difficult bosses here. My only hope was that the SSS ranked island would be difficult enough that we could catch up with the Fae.

It had taken them a little over half a day to get through the SS, while it had taken us half a day to get through C to A. Presuming SSS will be a little harder for them, I didn’t know for certain which of us would reach the boss room first. That lead to the other question, if they reached first, could we still enter through the back door? It was going to be close.